Medical Humanities Education Matching Funding Grants
Background
Post MD Education welcomes semi-annual submission of proposals requesting matching funding in support of proposed projects enhancing integration, application, and/or education within the scholarship of medical humanities and humanism in postgraduate medical education.
Funded projects are intended to align with both the best practices in medical humanities and the specific residency programs’ educational priorities.
Grants are designed to encourage engagement in the medical humanities to further enhance humanism, compassionate care, and clinical competencies and deliverables are closely aligned with the ongoing priorities of postgraduate medical education and CanMEDS roles.
Medical humanities have the potential to enhance several CanMEDS roles and competencies, including observation skills, empathy and perspective taking, tolerance of ambiguity, develop self-reflection, communication skills, enhance cultural competencies, and build wellness capacity (Shapiro & Rucker, 2003; McCullough, 2012, Watson, 2011; Silk & Shields, 2012; Zazulak, Booth, Price & Podedworny, 2013; Bleakley, 2015).
Post MD Education welcomes proposals reflecting a variety of curricular designs and project proposals identifying how medical humanities will be integrated into curricula and further enhance CanMEDS roles within specific or interdisciplinary residency training.
About the Proposals
Will be accepted semi-annually in May and October
Applications will use the forms provided and include:
A brief summary of the project (including number and length of sessions).
Identify objectives and intended value of the project as it relates to medical humanities.
Identify how the project is related to and addresses residency program(s) priorities and CanMEDS roles and/or competencies.
Identify how the goals of the project will be achieved through medical humanities.
Identify the expertise of the facilitator(s) responsible for facilitating the project.
Describe the methodology used to evaluate the program offered.
Provide a budget for the project with explanation of costs and demonstrating the match funding from the residency program involved.
Agreement to provide a project summary at the end of the 12-month period.
Signature of project lead and program director, with a copy to the Department Business Manager.
About the Funding
Will be provided for one year period.
Successful applicants will be provided funding a maximum of $5,000 per project from the PGME office.
Applications must include a letter of support from the co-funder (e.g. Departmental Chair, Hospital Chief).
Medical Humanities Education Matching Funding Grants
Grant Application
Application Deadlines:
March 29, 2018
October 15, 2018
Funding
Funding will be provided for a one-year period and awarded semi-annually in May and November.
Successful applicants will be provided funding a maximum of up to $5,000 per project from the PGME office. Applications must include a letter of support from the co-funder (e.g. Departmental Chair, Hospital Chief)
All successful grant recipients are required to submit a final report evaluating the project and identifying how objectives were met and their impact.
Ethics
If your proposed project is selected for funding, ethics approval (if applicable) must be secured prior to funding being released.